The artist works by listening to the intuitive voices from his inner landscape, and the mentally ill person listens to these same voices. It may well have been sheer madness itself, though Aomame was unable to locate the dividing line.” “Aomame and the dowager…shared something that resembled madness. “Rather than madness, its something that resembles madness.” “Maybe it’s just that I’ve gone crazy…don’t all mental patients insist that they are perfectly fine and it’s the world around them that is crazy? Aren’t I just proposing the wild hypothesis of parallel worlds as a way to justify my own madness?” In “1Q84,” Haruki Murakami addresses the fine line that separates the creative life of an artist from actual madness. The following analysis of 1Q84 does not include a plot summary, and is intended to be read by people who are already familiar with the book.
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